Sing in your Car! (Day 19: 3/19/10)

What's the good news?

So today was a beautiful day! Sunny, 70 degrees outside. I took a very nice walk today. Just a lovely, relaxing day.

Tonight I want to talk to you about singing in your car. Now, I'm sure a lot of people do this. I know I do it. Do you? If not, you definitely need to try it out. Pick a song! It can be on the radio, on a cd, on your Ipod (though, I must say here, make sure it's actually linked to your car's stereo system. If you get pulled over because you have headphones on...I don't know you. ha!) Turn up the volume and sing your heart out.

I find this is really great for me. It's almost like meditating, because I don't think about anything and I just enjoy myself and have a good time. "Oh, but Delia, that's crazy. At the stop lights, people will look at me strange...and that's embarrassing."

If you're thinking that, you clearly haven't learned anything yet. Let's review, shall we? What is the most important thing in the world? Hmm? What was that? Oh yes, correct. The most important thing in the world is how you feel. Right now. Right now, not yesterday or in a few minutes, but now, you need to be happy. You need to feel good. Your happiness is not to be dictated by what other people think of you. If you feel good singing in your car (or ANYTHING, as long as you aren't hurting anyone else) do it!

I am telling you, this is some old fashion, good quality fun, if nothing else. Having fun brings you a lot closer to your hopes and dreams and your desires and happiness. This is because whenever you are happy, that wall that you put up around yourself cracks. Each and every time that you laugh, it's like a wrecking ball against that thing. But keep in mind, that wall is thick. Very thick. You've spent years and years building it. Every single brick is every single negative thought that you have ever had about yourself, about your family, about your situation, about the dude that lives down the street and doesn't cut his grass, negative thoughts. Every single negative thought that you have ever had about anything is a brick in the wall that you have built up around yourself.

Now, that's a pretty thick wall. So what about all those times that you have laughed and smiled? They help. But let me paint you a picture of what they do. Picture that wrecking ball. It's strong, and powerful. But there's only one, okay? You don't get one for every time that you laugh or smile, or be happy in general. It just counts as one big swing on that wall. Now, I'm telling you, you can knock that wall down. You certainly can. But you're going to need a lot, a lot, of swings. The more you laugh and feel joy, the more the swings, and sooner or later, that wall will crack. Then after that, at some point, your wall is going to crumble. But it really wouldn't help for you to be adding new bricks to that wall, now would it?

It's great to have moments where you can chase away the negativity, without it having to mean something. It's like a free coupon to dinner. Singing in your car will do this, I'm telling you. It's a few minutes (or a few hours if you're on a long trip) of being happy just because you are in the moment. It's not because you worked hard all day, you're exhausted and you saw results so now you're going to hit the hay. It's not like you chased somebody for weeks and weeks and they finally agreed to go on a date with you. But you feel good, simply because you feel good. And that feels great.

I urge you to give it a try, today even. Go take a drive around the neighborhood with your radio on. You'll see how great you feel afterward.

I'm telling you this because on my way home from a fabulous dinner tonight, I noticed that I was jamming hard to my Kpop music with the windows down. I was loud, and laughing, and dancing at the stop lights. It was so much fun. By the time I got to my driveway, I didn't even want to get out of the car! I entered the house thinking, I have to share this with people! So here I am! I feel awesome. It's a feel-good thing.

I guess that's really all I have to share with you tonight! I hope that you have had a wonderful day! Oh, and happy entrance of Springtime!!!!

Hoping to do the book review soon!